Advice please :)

I'm from the August 2011 board so my LO is a year younger than all of yours! Just hoping I could get some advice from you moms :). My LO nurses to sleep and wakes up about 2-4 times a night. I'm just wondering if she will grow out of this or if I should somehow transition her from nursing to sleep or if I'm doing something wrong. Please helpp!!

I'm from the August 2011 board so my LO is a year younger than all of yours! Just hoping I could get some advice from you moms :). My LO nurses to sleep and wakes up about 2-4 times a night. I'm just wondering if she will grow out of this or if I should somehow transition her from nursing to sleep or if I'm doing something wrong. Please helpp!!

At 10 mos my dd also was not sleeping through the night. But she would wake only once or twice. She finally began sleeping through the night at 15-16 mos. now at almost 22 mos she sleeps through the night most of the time and we still nurse once a day first thing in the morning.

At 10 mos my dd also was not sleeping through the night. But she would wake only once or twice. She finally began sleeping through the night at 15-16 mos. now at almost 22 mos she sleeps through the night most of the time and we still nurse once a day first thing in the morning.

Just keep doing what you doing. :) I nursed before nap and bedtime until 2 weeks ago. Then my son just did not ask for it one day, so I read books before sleep instead. He still nurses first thing in the morning, but transition from nursing to sleep was on his terms and pretty much effortless. Oh, and he stopped nursing during the night after we moved his crib into a separate room at around 13 months.

Just keep doing what you doing. :) I nursed before nap and bedtime until 2 weeks ago. Then my son just did not ask for it one day, so I read books before sleep instead. He still nurses first thing in the morning, but transition from nursing to sleep was on his terms and pretty much effortless. Oh, and he stopped nursing during the night after we moved his crib into a separate room at around 13 months.

Hi, you're not doing anything wrong - you just do what you feel is right for you n bubs at the time, like every mummy does! I can't remember when we stopped nursing to sleep but I do remember it wasn't helping our sleep routine because dd would still be hungry later on as she fell asleep before she was full and would wake up and she was using me for comfort a lot and rather than eating would just fall asleep again! I must admit I tried giving her a dummy, to stop the constant mummy sucking lol and she took it! Around the same time I tried the wake to sleep method, which for her worked a treat. Think it was about timing tho and I think she was just ready! (I think she was about 5/6ish months). Oh I think we also introduced a bottle of formula before bed as I didn't seem to be filling her up properly before she fell asleep! So I think it was a combination of things for us but really just do what you think and go with the flow :-) Sorry for long post but hope it helps in some small way!

Hi, you're not doing anything wrong - you just do what you feel is right for you n bubs at the time, like every mummy does! I can't remember when we stopped nursing to sleep but I do remember it wasn't helping our sleep routine because dd would still be hungry later on as she fell asleep before she was full and would wake up and she was using me for comfort a lot and rather than eating would just fall asleep again! I must admit I tried giving her a dummy, to stop the constant mummy sucking lol and she took it! Around the same time I tried the wake to sleep method, which for her worked a treat. Think it was about timing tho and I think she was just ready! (I think she was about 5/6ish months). Oh I think we also introduced a bottle of formula before bed as I didn't seem to be filling her up properly before she fell asleep! So I think it was a combination of things for us but really just do what you think and go with the flow :-) Sorry for long post but hope it helps in some small way!

LOL. I know I'm a little late responding but you're not horrible at all for nursing to sleep. I nursed my twin girls before naps and bed until they were 16mo and that's when I had to quit b/c I got pregnant and developed hyperemesis which made me so sick I didn't want to be touched and because I wasn't able to eat or drink, my milk supply dropped.

As for your original question, my girls will be 2 next month (they were born early b/c they were twins) and one of them has always been a cruddy sleeper. She was waking up at least twice at night to nurse after she turned 1 while her sister mostly slept through the night and she still a couple times of week will wake up at night and end up in bed with me and my husband. I'm hoping that once this baby is born (soon!) we can start working on getting her to fall back asleep in her bed. Right now my husband is working full time and picking up my slack around the house and I'm too uncomfortable to sit in her room to get her back to sleep.

LOL. I know I'm a little late responding but you're not horrible at all for nursing to sleep. I nursed my twin girls before naps and bed until they were 16mo and that's when I had to quit b/c I got pregnant and developed hyperemesis which made me so sick I didn't want to be touched and because I wasn't able to eat or drink, my milk supply dropped.

As for your original question, my girls will be 2 next month (they were born early b/c they were twins) and one of them has always been a cruddy sleeper. She was waking up at least twice at night to nurse after she turned 1 while her sister mostly slept through the night and she still a couple times of week will wake up at night and end up in bed with me and my husband. I'm hoping that once this baby is born (soon!) we can start working on getting her to fall back asleep in her bed. Right now my husband is working full time and picking up my slack around the house and I'm too uncomfortable to sit in her room to get her back to sleep.

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